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Stories
11
Avg Time
1 year
Fastest
28 days
Solo
36%
Top growth channel
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Nathan Barry
How I bootstrapped ConvertKit to $25M/year starting with just $5,000
In 2013, I set a challenge for myself: build a $5K/mo SaaS in 6 months with just $5,000. I got the idea after reading people's complaints about Mailch...
$1K MRR ／ 2 years·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
JB
Josef Büttgen
12x12 Challenge: From Dwindling Runway to $10K MRR in 14 Months
Josef taught himself to code at age 13. He freelanced until he saved enough runway to commit to entrepreneurship. The Challenge His first produc...
$10K MRR ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
CS
Cody Schneider
From Google Drive folder to $1.1M ARR: How we built Swell AI with degenerate growth tactics
Started with 10 friends uploading MP3s to a Google Drive folder. Now doing $1.1M ARR by cold emailing 100,000 people per month.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·チーム
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
David Hsu
Retool: Pivoting from Fintech to $3.2B Internal Tools Platform
With 60 days of runway left, David Hsu pivoted from a UK Venmo competitor to Retool - and had a $1.5M pilot signed by Y Combinator Demo Day.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaS開発者ツール🇺🇸 US
Satya Rajpurohit
How ITF Built a $2M/Year Font Empire for Indian Languages
Satya Rajpurohit co-founded Indian Type Foundry in 2009 and now designs fonts for Apple, Google, Samsung, and 300+ Fortune 500 clients.
$100K ARR ／ 10 years·チーム
SaaSデザイン🇮🇳 IN
MR
Max Rhodes
How Faire Used Net-60 Terms and Free Returns to Build a $12.4B Wholesale Marketplace
Max Rhodes left Square to fix wholesale. Faire offered retailers net-60 payment terms and free returns — eliminating the risk of trying new brands. Result: $12.4B valuation, 700K+ retailers.
$100K ARR ／ 9 months·チーム
マーケットプレイスEコマース🇺🇸 US
Orel Zilberman
after 600 days and zero dollars, writestack became a $110k a year tool for substack writers
Orel Zilberman burned through roughly $70,000 and a dozen failed products before a tool for Substack creators finally started paying. Here is how he got there.
$100K ARR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaSコンテンツ制作🇮🇱 IL
PN
Pratham Naik
How Pratham Naik took Bearconnect to $2.4K MRR by fixing churn before scaling
Pratham Naik grew Bearconnect to $2.4K MRR by starting with 80 direct messages, then pausing outreach to fix churn before scaling personalized outbound again.
$1K MRR ／ 1 month·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇮🇳 IN
KK
Kyle Konstnar
How Kyle Konstnar took HandyPay to $1K MRR in under 60 days
Kyle Konstnar stopped waiting for SEO and landing-page tweaks, went directly to spas, salons, and service businesses, and turned HandyPay into a $1K MRR payments tool in under 60 days.
$1K MRR ／ 2 months·ソロ
SaaS金融Jamaica
Santanu Dasgupta
How Meerkats AI reached $3K MRR in 4 weeks by selling agentic GTM work
Santanu Dasgupta turned two decades of GTM pain into Meerkats AI, an agentic marketing platform that found early customers through agency outreach, education and LinkedIn posts instead of a broad launch.
$1K MRR ／ 28 days·チーム
SaaSマーケティングBengaluru, India
AC
Abhishek Chakravarty and Davis Baer
How Youform reached $18K MRR by becoming the affordable Typeform alternative
Abhishek Chakravarty spotted Typeform users looking for a cheaper form builder, sold his adjacent chatbot product, and built Youform into an $18K MRR freemium SaaS with pricing people could understand.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 year·チーム
SaaS生産性India / USA
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